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...latest experiment, which could pave the way for super-fast quantum computing, successfully brought light to a complete stop for half a millisecond. The normal speed of light is 186,000 miles per second...
...Eastern Conference. Previous playoff series between these two teams have resembled WWF throwdowns. These days the only thing Sprewell goes after is a win. He's not a fluid player, but unpredictably jerky, his arms everywhere at once, his feet in the same place for only a millisecond. Then he makes the swift shot or the quick pass, or he's above the rim crashing the ball through the hoop--as he did in game three against the Raptors--with grimacing passion. If only the FedEx guy delivered with such drama...
...named Hugh Everett was toying with some of the more bizarre implications of quantum mechanics. That theory, accepted by all serious physicists, says that the motions of atoms and subatomic particles can never be predicted with certainty; you can tell only where, say, an electron will probably be a millisecond from now. It could quite possibly end up somewhere else...
...light. When you return, the earth will be 1,000 years older, but you'll have aged only 10 years. I already know a time traveler. My friend, astronaut Story Musgrave, who helped repair the Hubble Space Telescope, spent 53.4 days in orbit. He is thus more than a millisecond younger than he would have been if he had stayed home. The effect is small, because he traveled very slowly relative to the speed of light, but it's real...
...while everyone seems to be making a big deal about what will happen the precise millisecond when December 31st, 1999 turns into January 1st, 2000, I'm not worried one bit. And it's not because I've stockpiled canned goods in my apocalypse bunker or that I've taken all of my money out of the bank and put it under my mattress in fear that bank records will be lost...